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Kevin Aiello
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I'm a production artist and writer, interested in social justice, activism, culture, philosophy, psychology and art.
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samuelmoyn.bsky.social
Beauvoir’s book was a big inspiration for mine podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
An Ageing World: Simone de Beauvoir on Old Age
Podcast Episode · Past Present Future · October 4 · 54m
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October 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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gammacounter.bsky.social
New, deluxe Ace paperback of Neuromancer, released to ~ coincide with the upcoming Apple series. Very nice cover design by Adam Auerbach.
Photo of cover. Text runs vertically. Pink background. Man running.
October 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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tomrpike.bsky.social
A cool thing to do if you're anxious about AI is read "Conscience", which is about a planet-spanning AI brain that keeps people alive inside itself to act as its conscience. You can tell your therapist that, for some reason, you thought this would help
tomrpike.bsky.social Tom R. Pike @tomrpike.bsky.social · 20d
My short story "Conscience" is out in the newly-printed @analogsf.bsky.social. It's about an LLM that goes rogue, eliminates all life, feels vaguely bad about it, and simulates people to try over and over again to try to coax us into forgiving it. Buy it now at your local Barnes and Noble!
Cover of Analog SF magazine, which shows a girl examining a levitating peach
October 2, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
It all started on this day. Thank you for a wonderful twenty years.
Text in the center reads: 20 Years Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2026, clarkesworldmagazine.com (right) Cover art for issue 241 by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue. (left) Cover art for issue 1 by Tomasz Pietrzyk is "The Town of the Towers" and features a surreal town of yellowy white distorted towers with reddish orange roofs that overhang the towers and rise to a point. Mishapen dark windows and doors are scattered about on the buildings. Orange sky gives the entire piece a warm tone.
October 1, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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amalelmohtar.com
John Wilson’s THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE is riveting & utterly wonderful & I feel like my brain’s spiderwebbed into sixteen different fascinations
September 29, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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edzitron.com
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary Companies • Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2 trillion • Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025 • Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year • Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024 • Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the prospectus.
September 29, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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edzitron.com
The GFC, much like the AI bubble, was nothing to do with reality, but ever-twisting levels of speculation. Too much of our financial system is powered by number games dressed up as investment.
September 28, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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rsagarcia.bsky.social
I know I haven't updated in a while. There's been a lot going on.

- My calcium levels are still worrying.
- My eye scans aren't good.
- I have to get a CT scan soon.

I need help to pay for everything to be done privately. Any amount would be helpful.

Thanks.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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September 25, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
A couple of thoughtful #MindscapePodcast listeners have set up useful web pages for those who want to dig into the vast trove of past discussions.

Summary here: www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll...
New Useful Web Pages | Sean Carroll
Listener Andy Jiang has thoughtfully set up a web site where anyone can search through all the AMAs: http://mindscapesear.ch/ Meanwhile Max
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September 27, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
This is extraordinarily well written.
September 26, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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dbcurren.bsky.social
“For #Habermas the deeper problem isn’t the resulting noise; it’s that heavy #platform use produces something smaller than a #public: semi-public spheres, self-enclosed, #silos whose members can no longer perceive the wider public sphere as inclusive at all …”
September 26, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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joshgondelman.bsky.social
This is one of those times when I really wish I was a people!!!
pftompkins.bsky.social Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 9d
Well let’s see how this goes. I’m constructing a new hour of standup and I need some people to watch it. Could YOU be a people?

Saturday 11/28 at the Elysian.
Tix: bit.ly/cbwpft1126
Prompt artwork for the show: in the style of a pulp novel cover, a bedraggled man (me) crawls through a grimy alley towards a microphone
September 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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earlofedgecombe.bsky.social
There's a big Nor'easter storm about to hit here in Westchester and the sky is INSANE!
Sunset over a suburban neighborhood. The sky is electric orange.
September 25, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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larand.one
Just unfollowed someone in tech whom I’ve followed for years because he’s apparently turned into a shill for AI. I can only assume he’s suffered a brain injury, and wish him a speedy recovery.
September 25, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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solomonrmissouri.com
lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
September 24, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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gammacounter.bsky.social
Now in 16 US states, but not mine, so I’m getting one for the road.

Bye for now, Canada, I’ll always come back.
Photo of a bag of Tim Hortons and iced coffee at the airport
September 23, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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vox-magica.bsky.social
i hate that i can’t enjoy cute animal videos without wondering if they’re AI.

i’m getting better at checking, but damn, way to ruin one of the few good things on the internet.
September 22, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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davidsirota.com
I found the ultimate enshittification scheme: My cellphone carrier Xfinity Mobile is suddenly now allowing 30+ spam calls to my cell phone, and is offering a spam-call filter…for an extra fee.

They are literally making a business out of enshittifying basic cellphone service.
September 22, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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danmargolies.bsky.social
Just finished @lkatfield.bsky.social's superb _Furious Minds_. Nuanced & engaged deep exploration of the post-liberalism, theocratic lunacy, and (in a great and accurate phrasing) the "Schmittian filth" of the Trumpist intellectuals who are laboring to destroy democracy here.
September 22, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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edzitron.com
As discussed a few weeks ago, SoftBank portfolio company SB Energy has signed $439 billion in business with SoftBank portfolio company OpenAI, which is also an investor in SB Energy, as well as its largest (and only real) client. It has now pulled its IPO.

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https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-haters-guide-to-circular-financing-part-two/#:~:text=To%20summarize%2C%20SoftBank
September 22, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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carynrose.bsky.social
No one wants to use your fucking AI and putting it first so someone hits it by accident doesn’t count
The new layout on insta when you go to add a story to your feed now has the fucking ai that none of us want to use in the first spot instead of add to story
September 22, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
The Coltrane estate advertised this on their instagram account. Couldn’t resist. Edited by Ravi Coltrane.
September 22, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
NEW BRAIN DROPPED
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
med.stanford.edu
September 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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jelvisweinstein.bsky.social
I had a couple walk out early in my show on Saturday night because, according to the manager, the guy said "I'm not going to watch some fucking Jew." Fair enough, but to be that anti-semitic yet still buying a ticket to see a guy named J. Elvis Weinstein just seems like bush league hate.
September 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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maris.bsky.social
Of course they all fucking knew! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...
www.publishersweekly.com
September 21, 2026 at 5:34 PM